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A history of the French new wave cinema

The French New Wave cinema is arguably the most fascinating of all film movements, famous for its exuberance, daring, and avant-garde techniques. A History of the French New Wave Cinema offers a fresh look at the social, economic, and aesthetic mechanisms that shaped French film in the 1950s, as well as detailed studies of the most important New Wave movies of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Richard Neupert first tracks the precursors to New Wave cinema, showing how they provided blueprints for those who would follow. He then demonstrates that it was a core group of critics-turned-directors from the magazine Cahiers du Cinéma--especially François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, and Jean-Luc Godard--who really revealed that filmmaking was changing forever. Later, their cohorts Eric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, and Pierre Kast continued in their own unique ways to expand the range and depth of the New Wave. In an exciting new chapter, Neupert explores the subgroup of French film practice known as the Left Bank Group, which included directors such as Alain Resnais and Agnès Varda. With the addition of this new material and an updated conclusion, Neupert presents a comprehensive review of the stunning variety of movies to come out of this important era in filmmaking
eBook, English, ©2007
University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wis., ©2007
History
1 online resource (xxix, 408 pages) : illustrations
9780299217037, 9781282594715, 9786612594717, 0299217035, 1282594710, 6612594713
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Cultural contexts : where did the wave begin?
Testing the water : Alexandre Astruc, Agnès Varda, and Jean-Pierre Melville
New stories, new sex : Roger Vadim and Louis Malle
Claude Chabrol : launching a wave
Francois Truffaut : the new wave's ringleader
Jean-Luc Godard : Le petit soldat
The cahiers du cinéma cohort : Eric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, and Pierre Kast
On the new wave's Left Bank : Alain Resnais and Agnès Varda
Previous edition: 2002
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English